Campaign 2008
After today there are 28 days until November 4.
The mud is flying, the lies are both subtle and bold [decide for yourself which is worse] and the campaigns are resorting to their respective "scorched earth" policies."
And I have to ask -- even though the civil religion of the US ["Judeo-Christianity" so-called] says that voting is not just a right but an obligation if one wants to be allowed voice to complain about the result. Why is not voting -- especially because of the resulting association with one liar or another -- so akin to becoming voiceless.
Not voting is just as much a vote as a 'Present' vote in the halls of our representative assemblies, local, state and national. If an assemblyman, a representative or a senator does not lose his voice in future discussion -- even about the same issue -- why do the guardians of the civil religion not accord the same respect to the citizens who choose not to vote for a "lesser of two evils" as so many as want to say?
So I now say, along with a guy I respect quite a bit, "Stop forming inappropriate relationships with unbelievers. Can right and wrong be partners? Can light have anything in common with darkness? Can Christ agree with the devil? Can a believer share life with an unbeliever? Can God's temple contain false gods? Clearly, we are the temple of the living God. As God said, 'I will live and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.' The Lord says, 'Get away from unbelievers. Separate yourselves from them. Have nothing to do with anything unclean. Then I will welcome you.' The Lord Almighty says, 'I will be your Father, and you will be my sons and daughters.' "
Or is that too strict?
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